Tag: Romance

Acknowledging her own anger frightens Miranda Richmond Mouillot more than she realizes, as we discover in her new book, “A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War and a Ruined House in France” (Crown). And she has plenty to be angry about. She grew up a nervous and anxious child in a...

I had just entered this stage as a casual traveler, to observe. I had watched the little kids use their slings to kill mockingbirds, and chase rabid dogs in the streets with angry bats. I had awakened from sleep to coughing guns in front of...

After a week of online dating I feel I must lend a helping hand to the men who are online trying to meet a nice woman. By men of course I mean man, because in the sea of men available online, I imagine that only one in a million is actually looking for something more than a booty...

Each time I officiate at a marriage, I perpetrate a small fraud. I read the ketubah, the marriage contract, in its original Aramaic and then I read the “translation.” The translation is actually a confection of sweet-spun phrases about creating a home of warmth, openness, and...

If Zach Braff and Justin Long had a baby, it would be Bachelor Ben. He is a sweet man and I wish him well. He was blessed to be dumped by the teeth picking, bang touching Ashley. I’m just unclear why nobody in his life that cares about him, does not make him get a haircut. I like...

Decades after being forced to hide in confining attics in Holland, Holocaust survivor Flory A. Van Beek, now 86, tells a courageous story in her memoir of how she and her husband Felix, now 96, kept romance and hope alive during chilling times.

Stuart Miller was not looking for a wife. After two failed marriages over the course of 15 years, the Arcadia doctor and father of two was content with his newfound bachelorhood and independence. But when he met Stacy, the widowed mother of one of his daughter's Hebrew school...

I love my neighbor. Not, as it says in the Torah, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." But literally, I love him. It's not only because he helps me with manly activities, like moving furniture, killing cockroaches and opening jars (how do single women do these things alone?) but because...

In April 1994, at a Hillel lecture in Westwood, the topic was: "The Relationship Between Jewish Men & Jewish Women: Love or War?" On the "war" side of that discussion was Dr. Herb Goldberg, a practicing psychologist, professor and writer.

It was a short but fascinating discussion. I had about a dozen singles over for Friday night dinner -- as part of Lori Pietruszka's "Shabbat in the Hood" program to connect Jewish singles with a Shabbat experience -- when a cryptic exchange caught my attention.

Jennifer Tralins' wedding on a private beach near Miami was picture perfect, from the warm sand under her bare feet to the sweet sounds of the flute as she walked down the aisle in an elegant beaded gown. But for the bride, the most memorable aspect of the ceremony was her yichud,...

When I was 12 years old, I spent a steamy L.A. summer cooling off at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills watching old Oscar Best Picture
Award movies, including "How Green Was My Valley," "Mrs. Miniver" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca."

I don't date much. I have all the usual excuses - too busy, not into "the scene," but really, I'm just a lazy dater. I'm like the fisherman who waits for the fish to jump into
his bucket. I don't go to bars or join groups, but if someone comes my way, I happily pursue.

Divorce attorneys. Are there two dirtier words in the English language? Thoughts of them conjure up images of circling human sharks, cold-blooded assassins and profiteers feasting on the misery of others. Turning to them for suggestions on how to stay married would seem about as...

There are so many choices of singles events, but most of them don't seem to work for me: SpeedDating -- concept is interesting, but my age range and location
never seem to match my availability; outdoor sports -- not my thing, and it's not that I'm out of shape, I'm just a...

When a guy -- let's say me, for the sake of argument -- is lacking a romantic partner, every bit of attention I get from any woman, even a complete stranger, takes on heightened significance and pleasure. Because I don't have a wife, girlfriend or lover, a simple smile from any woman...

Why is finding and sustaining a successful romantic relationship so difficult? I blame the American education system. It teaches us a world of information we most likely will never need unless we're either settling a bar bet, appearing on "Jeopardy" or helping our children with their...

Note to Self: Do not date a man who says that he can't be in a relationship. Do not go out with him after he tells you he wants to go out with you -- but only casually. Even if everything he says or does proves to the contrary -- like for example, he calls you every day and wants to...

Where there's a bride to be, there's a bachelorette party. And for many Los Angeles women, that party means just one thing: The Love Boutique. For 25 years, the shop has entertained and educated parties of women about sexuality and sensuality. The Love Boutique parties are like...

We're not saying we believe any of this, mind you, but, yes, Jews, too, like to peek at horoscopes. But up until now, something's been missing -- that Jewish touch. Sure, you could count on Bubbe and Zayde to dispense career advice and to forecast general doom, but that hardly...

Fess up or don't, a lot of us are reading romance novels -- otherwise known as "bodice rippers." The numbers speak for themselves, accounting for 48 percent of all popular paperback fiction published, according to the Web site of the Romance Writers of America.

Sandra Bullock was all set to take the role of Rafi Gardet in the movie "Prime," playing the 37-year-old woman who falls in love with a 23-year-old Jewish artist. But two weeks before shooting, Bullock pulled out. The actress told the trades the script hadn't been revised to her...

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